Batsto Village by Solem Barbara;

Author:Solem, Barbara; [SOLEM, BARBARA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 4873308
Publisher: Plexus Publishing, Inc.

WHARTON’S DESTINY UNFOLDS

In 1847, when Joseph was 21, he joined his older brother Rodman in a venture to refine and market cottonseed oil. The business failed and the brothers dissolved their partnership in 1849. Soon after, Joseph found an opportunity in brick manufacturing. By the spring of 1849 he had entered into a partnership with the owner of several large brickyards to sell bricks and brick-making machines. Although he learned a great deal from his involvement with this enterprise, by 1853 he had begun to doubt its prospects for making money and sold his share of the company.

In 1849 Joseph became engaged to Anna Lovering, the younger sister of his brother Charles’s wife, Mary. Anna, whose family were also members of the Society of Friends, was slim, pretty, reserved, and intelligent. Her father, Joseph Lovering, was a wealthy industrialist who had developed an innovative method of refining sugar and was among the leading manufacturers in the field. Lovering’s interest and experience in sugar making would later be instrumental in Wharton’s purchase of his Pine Barrens land. The Loverings owned a large mansion called Oak Hill, which was located near Germantown, Pennsylvania.

Joseph and Anna’s engagement lasted four years and, on June 15, 1854, they were married at Oak Hill in the presence of 60 witnesses, all members of the two families. By this time Joseph was managing a mining operation for the Pennsylvania and Lehigh Zinc Company near Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Later he would manage the company’s zinc oxide works. This job required him initially to have many long separations from Anna, who remained living with her parents in Oak Hill even though the couple had purchased a home at 33 South 12th Street in Philadelphia.

By 1863 when Wharton left the Pennsylvania and Lehigh Zinc Company, he and Anna had started a family, their first daughter, Joanna, having been born in 1859. Two more daughters would follow: Mary in 1862 and Anna in 1868. After leaving the company, Wharton formed the American Nickel Works, hoping to profit from the use of nickel in coins. Based in Camden, New Jersey, the American Nickel Works would eventually produce the only nickel used in the United States as well as a significant percentage of the world’s supply.

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